Posted on 12/19/2007 5:29:22 PM PST by decimon
Now if we can just get some nuke plants built we can eliminate our need for oil from our enemies.
Yep. Couldn’t help but notice the names. Taht means that all of their research is already somewhere in Beijing.
China may well undergo some sort of nasty collapse in the next couple of decades - perhaps even sooner. Their prosperity is a mile wide and an inch deep.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941827/postsToshiba's building a "Micro Nuclear" reactor for your garage? Alright, details are slim, and we really have no idea if Toshiba has any plans whatsoever to sell these nuclear reactors to consumers -- in fact, we hope it doesn't -- but it does seem like the company is well on its way to commercializing the design. Toshiba's Micro Nuclear reactors are designed to power a single apartment building or city block, and measure a mere 20-feet by 6-feet. The 200 kilowatt reactor is fully automatic and fail-safe, and is completely self-sustaining. It uses special liquid lithium-6 reservoirs instead of traditional control rods, and can last up to 40 years, making energy for about 5 cents per kilowatt hour. Toshiba has been testing the reactors since 2005, and hopes to install its first reactor in Japan in 2008, with marketing to Europe and America in 2009. Oh, and we lied: we totally want one of these in our garage
Yep. Gives me an idea for a grant request...
damn Stonecutters...
Okay, I guess it’s officially time to reread that.
Fortunately, it’s here in the same room with me.
Govt will institute odd/even recharging days
Just the nanowire battery would cause a huge increase in EV demand. Fleet vehicles, commuter cars, lotsa vehicles are stored overnight every night and then used for only a fixed amount of mileage each day. All of these vehicles could be charged at night when other electric usage is low and then used all day.
Battery substations could be used to smooth out the total demand curve to avoid the need to build or use additional peak-demand generation assets. They could also be used in modular, distributed locations to delay or obviate the need for transmission system upgrades. It might be very useful.
What makes you think they aren’t American?
What if their names were Cohen or Schwarz?
Would you automatically assume they were Israelis?
And yes the Chinese do read and understand the
scholarly journals, so they probably do “have it”.
Sheesh..
Now this is the kind of stuff that’s worthy of a patent. I hope he makes billions.
There was a story recently that electric and hybrid cars plugged-in to the wall could perform that exact function on a distributed basis.
I loved that book.
Watch out for the Hubbardites/Elronners!
I used to have an electric home heating system that charged during the night to provide heat during the day.
I have a current home heating system that I charge during the summer (I cut wood) to provide heat (I burn wood) during the winter.
:)
LOL!
I do that too.
Heinlein and his Red Heads!
Is not Stanford a publicly funded Univercity? Do not that mean that products developed and discoveries made belong to the public?
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